Best of Park City Restaurants

Below are some of the award-winning Park City Utah restaurants favorites of locals, visitors and critics alike.

We have sorted them by location, price range, and cuisine type – from Best of Main Street Park City Restaurants to Best Breakfast, Resort Restaurants, Brew Pubs, Sushi, Coffee Houses, Best Cheap Restaurants and more.

Most people expect restaurant prices at a resort town to be higher than your average city-rate and Park City is no exception.

Park City is synonymous with high-end, budget-busting eateries. I’ve been on the ski lift with out-of-town visitors and many have made the remark of how expensive it is here to eat.

With that said, there are plenty of restaurants here that are well-worth the price.

But if you have access, read reviews on Yelp, Google, etc.. before choosing a restaurant. Just because a restaurant is in Park City and claims to be world-class, doesn’t mean it is.

We’ve had some mediocre meals and service at some “fine-dining” establishments. But you don’t have to eat at McDonalds either.

There are some awesome mid-priced and cheaper places that have excellent food. We will list here by category some of the best Park City restaurants that stand out with consistent, positive reviews.

Tip: Know Before You Go – I’ve never seen restaurants come and go so quickly like they do in Park City.

So before you go to any restaurant in Park City that you haven’t seen or physically been to yet, call ahead and make sure it still exists. We have learned that mistake about 4 times now.

Either the restaurant had closed or moved to another location or changed its hours. So don’t rely on a listing you see in a brochure or magazine or even online.

One way that is semi-reliable is if you see recent reviews for the restaurant within a week or two of the current date.

Tip: Main Street Restaurants – Main Street Restaurants are usually very busy during the ski season, especially after 6pm. It is highly recommended to make reservations, especially at the more popular, higher-end restaurants.

Tip: Restaurant Discounts – Be sure to stop by the visitor center on the way into Park City. There’s a coupon book you can pick up that includes discounts to restaurants. You may also find coupons in The Park Record (Park City local newspaper).

Tip: BYOW – A bottle of wine can be expensive at Park City restaurants, more so than usual because of Utah Liquor Laws.
To save some money or to have more choices, you can purchase wine at any of the Park City State Liquor Stores (listed in the liquor laws chapter) and bring the bottle to the restaurant.Utah calls this “Brown Bagging.” At the discretion of the restaurant or club, brown bagging is permitted at licensed establishments only.

A corkage fee will be charged, and in most cases this will still be cheaper (corkage + cost of wine) than buying the bottle at the restaurant. However, for an upscale restaurant like the Riverhorse on Main, their corkage fee is $30 per bottle.

In order for your bottle to be uncorked, it must have the Utah State Tax Sticker on it. You may want to check with the specific restaurant to see if they allow brown bagging before showing up with a bottlle

Best Main Street Park City Restaurants (Expensive)

Here I am listing the best expensive restaurants on Main Street because it is a popular location for visitors to eat and aside from resort-specific restaurants (which I list in a separate category later on), is where many of the best restaurants in Park City are located.

Zoom is owned by Robert Redford. It has a casual, elegant setting in restored train depot. Winner of Best of State American Continental Cuisine 2010, Casual Dining/American 2007-2008. Rachael Ray went to Zoom on her show, “$40 A Day”. Zagat Ratings (out of 30): Food: 21, Decor: 23, Service: 21.

Davanza’s (Pizza, American)

A local’s favorite, Davanza’s is often referred to as a “Dive” but people love the food and low prices, especially for a place that is located near Main Street.

Besides pizza, they offer burgers, subs, street-tacos and salads.

Price range: $6 – $22 (the most expensive item ($22) is a large 16″ pizza called the “Mucker Supreme” with assorted meats and veggies). Specials include 2 slices of pizza and a soda for $6.75. Burgers are around $6-$8. Tacos are $2.50 each.

Davanza’s location downtown is just one block west of Main St. on Park Ave., not far from the Park City Mtn. Resort Town Lift.

Many ski down off the mountain & park their skis and boards outside Davanza’s while they eat.

Best Lunch

Any of the cheap restaurants I listed previously: El Chubasco, Nick’s and Davanza’s are also great for lunch, but here are a few additions:

Grub Steak Restaurant (American, Steakhouse, Seafood)

The Grub Steak Restaurant offers fresh home-ground burgers, sandwiches, paninis, tacos (all priced between $8-$11) which all come with choice of fries, coleslaw, mashed potatoes, a cup of soup or garden greens, plus you can add a trip to their salad bar for $3.

They also offer ribs and steaks off their dinner menu if you desire (but is a little more expensive – $21-$40).
Fun, Western-Cowboy decorated interior. Tripadvisor 2013 Certificate of Excellence.

Serves hearty, homemade soups, salads and sandwiches at the top of Main Street in a cozy lil’ shop.

Just note that during the Sundance Film Festival in January, the owner chooses to only serve locals (at least that’s what she did during the last 5 years).

It gets really crowded during that week and she wants to make sure her regular local customers have a place to eat without the wait like everywhere else in town.

Sandwich prices: Half: $5.00, Whole: $9.95.

227 Main St. | 435-615-1998 | no website

Best Brunch

Glitretind

The Glitretind in the Stein Eriksen Lodge at Deer Valley was voted by locals as “Utah’s Best Sunday Brunch” and has been rated by the Zagat Survey as being the “Most Romantic Restaurant” and having the “Best Sunday Brunch” as well.

Whether you go for Sunday brunch, breakfast, lunch or dinner, you will most likely, as others, be satisfied with all aspects of your meal.

The food is superb as well as the service and the beautiful slopeside views. This is a place you go to splurge, not for a budget meal.

The brunch is only on Sundays from 11:00am to 2:00pm. For reservations call 435-645-6455 or make them online here:

The Glitretind is located inside the Stein Eriksen Lodge at 7700 Stein Way.

Riverhorse on Main

Riverhorse is one of the best restaurants in Park City for dinner, but they also offer brunch from Thursday – Sunday, 10:30am to 1:30pm.

Savor the stuffed French toast with orange cream-cheese filling and warm syrup or delight in duck confit eggs benedict with classic hollandaise and be sure to toast friends and family with a glass of champagne or your favorite glass of wine off the award-winning wine menu.

Note: You may find some places online talking about the Talisker on Main Brunch, but I just contacted them and they told me they no longer offer brunch.

Best Restaurants at the Resorts

Deer Valley Resort

Most any full service restaurant you eat at Deer Valley will be excellent as well as expensive. It’s where you come to splurge, not for a budget meal.

There are many restaurants at Deer Valley, but here are a couple not to be missed. These are definitely worth going to even if you are not staying at Deer Valley Resort.

Deer Valley Seafood Buffet

Deer Valley’s Seafood Buffet is listed as one of “America’s Top Restaurants” in the Zagat Restaurant Guide.

If you like seafood, then this one’s a no-brainer.

It’s a little pricey at $64/adult, children 11 years and younger/$34 (price does not include beverages, tax or gratuity), but we feel its worth it.

Besides, by the time you spend $20 on entrées at other pricey Park City Utah restaurants and then add on appetizers and desserts, you’re basically at the same price point.

The Seafood Buffet offers a vast array of fresh seafood, including sushi, chilled shellfish, hot seafood appetizers and entrées, along with grilled fowl, pasta and prime rib, plus fabulous homemade desserts. After a long day on the slopes, you deserve it!

Park City Resort Base Area Restaurants

The Park City base, unlike Deer Valley & The Canyons Village, has a few casual restaurants but nothing really special.

The only full-service restaurant at the resort is the Legends Bar & Grill and the next closest is the Baja Cantina which are both okay, but nothing special. I’m guessing that because Park City is so close to town and all the Main Street Restaurants, it decided not to focus or offer and upscale restaurant.

Best Pizza

“Best pizza” is relatively speaking here.

Some people like thick-crust, some people like thin crust. Some people may prefer Pizza Hut (which Park City does have) over the pizzerias listed below.

Park City is neither Chicago nor New York nor Napoli. But here are some places visitors and locals enjoy, the trend being authentic, wood-fired pizzas.

Vinto

Napoli wood-fired, thin-crust pizza.

Sit-down service in a modern-styled restaurant. Conveniently located on Main Street.

Won Best of State 2011-2013. Readers’ Choice Awards from Salt Lake Magazine: Best Restaurant Park City, Best Italian, Best Quick Eats, Best Lunch.

Maxwell’s East Coast Eatery

IT is ;ocated in Newpark shopping area at Kimball Jct. next to the Swaner Nature Preserve.

It has an upbeat, sports-bar atmosphere with lots of HD flat-screen TVs.

You can order pizza by the slice for $3 or get a whole 20″ pie – price range from $16 (cheese) to $21 for specialty pies or pay $2 for additional toppings. Maxwell offers bar seating and sit-down table service.

We went to Yuki for lunch and it was great. Our server was very nice and helpful when we asked questions and checked up on us just the right amount of times. The food was excellent and the atmosphere relaxing.